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Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) will give its full support to help the new space agency, which will be launched in May, get into place quickly, its president said Thursday.
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The year 2023 was a year of significant events for Korea's space industry. The Danuri, Korea's first lunar orbiter, which entered the moon's orbit in December 2022, officially began scientific observations from lunar orbit in January. In May, the country successfully launched a Nuri space launch vehicle for the third time, placing eight satellites in orbit, and solidified its position as an emerging space power.
June 21, 2022, marks the turning point for Korea's space industry. KSLV-2, better known by its Korean name “Nuri,” is a Korean-made three-stage launch vehicle that shot through the sky of Goheung County in South Jeolla Province and successfully released a test satellite into a 700 kilometers-high orbit. Following the failed first attempt in October the previous year, the accomplishment made Korea the world' seventh country to possess a working space launch vehicle technology capable of carrying a 1 kilogram or heavier satellite - following the U.S., Russia, the European Union, India, Japan...